Cuthbert

For other uses, see Cuthbert (disambiguation).
"St Cuthbert" redirects here. For other uses, see St Cuthbert (disambiguation).

Saint

Cuthbert
Cuthbert discovers a piece of timber, from a 12th-century manuscript of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert
Bishop
Bornc. 634
Dunbar, Northumbria (now in Scotland)
Died20 March 687
Inner Farne, Kingdom of Northumbria (now in England)
Venerated inCatholic Church;
Anglicanism;
Eastern Orthodox Church, Church of Scotland
Major shrineDurham Cathedral, England
Feast20 March, Catholic Church, Episcopal Church; 4 September (Catholic Ordinariates)
AttributesBishop holding a second crowned head in his hands; sometimes accompanied by seabirds and animals
PatronageKingdom of Northumbria, Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle

Cuthbert of Lindisfarne[a] (c. 634 – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria,[b] today in northern England and southern Scotland. Both during his life and after his death, he became a popular medieval saint of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northumbria. His feast days are 20 March (Catholic Church, Church of England, Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church[7]) and 4 September (Church in Wales, Catholic Church).

Cuthbert grew up in or around Lauderdale, near Old Melrose Abbey, a daughter-house of Lindisfarne, today in Scotland. He decided to become a monk after seeing a vision on the night in 651 that Aidan, the founder of Lindisfarne, died, but he seems to have experienced some period of military service beforehand. He was made guest-master at the new monastery at Ripon, soon after 655, but had to return with Eata of Hexham to Melrose when Wilfrid was given the monastery instead.[8][9] About 662 he was made prior at Melrose, and around 665 went as prior to Lindisfarne. In 684 he was made bishop of Lindisfarne, but by late 686 he resigned and returned to his hermitage as he felt he was about to die. He was probably in his early 50s.[10][11]

  1. ^ Rollason & Dobson.
  2. ^ Farmer 2011, p. 108.
  3. ^ Thacker 2013.
  4. ^ Walsh 2007, pp. 136–137.
  5. ^ Heylyn, G. (26 October 1670). "A Help to English History: Containing a Succession of All the Kings of England..." E. Basset – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Searle, William George. "onomasticon". CUP Archive – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Cuthbert". Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  8. ^ Battiscombe 1956, pp. 120–125.
  9. ^ Farmer 1995, p. 57.
  10. ^ Battiscombe 1956, pp. 125–141.
  11. ^ Farmer 1995, p. 60.


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